Aloud!, text to speech reader

Name: Aloud!, text to speech reader
Rating: 4.3 (241 reviews)
Author: Chun Kai Lau

By: Chun Kai Lau

Read out loud PDF, books (TTS)

Features & Capabilities

Aloud! is a powerful Text-to-Speech reader that turns PDFs, DOCX, EPUB, and web pages into natural audio you can listen to anywhere. It supports offline playback, background listening, and a range of voices with adjustable rate and pitch, plus synchronized word highlighting to follow along.

It remembers your place across documents, makes reading accessible for people with dyslexia and visual impairments, and supports a wide variety of formats including ZIP archives. Trusted since 2014, Aloud! is designed to boost focus, learning, and productivity.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

Chun Kai Lau

Rating:

4.30

(241)

Version:

1.15.4 Last updated: 2025-06-24

Version code:

875834692

Creation date:

2014-04-12

Compatible devices:

Size:

54.00MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-03

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 109,259 ▼ 364

For Developers

Monetize with App Pass Boost with Extension Booster

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Developed by:

Chun Kai Lau

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aloud-text-to-speech-reader/id852033350

Website:

https://appappworks.com/aloud

User Reviews

Users praise Aloud! as a long‑standing, multilingual, text-to-speech reader that’s free and helpful for listening to ebooks and other texts. However, many reviews repeatedly complain about reliability and UX issues: crashes when loading PDFs or after updates, ads and broken pro upgrades, playback bugs like repeating paragraphs and awkward pronunciation/punctuation handling, and navigation problems that prevent starting at a chosen point or saving progress. These reliability and monetization problems overshadow the app’s strengths for most users.

Pros

Very helpful for listening to ebooks and other texts, especially PDFs.
Supports many languages, making it useful for multilingual users.
Long-standing, free-to-use tool that many users rely on.
Valued by users as a key accessibility option for those who prefer listening to text.

Cons

Frequent crashes, especially when loading PDFs, and crashes after updates.
Intrusive ads and broken upgrade flow (ads persist after paying; pro widget issues; 'No Transaction Registered').
Playback issues like repeating paragraphs, robotic voice, and poor punctuation handling.
Navigation problems: cannot start reading from a chosen point and scrolling can reset to the end.
Save feature not working and lag during scrolling, indicating reliability and performance problems.

Recent reviews

Its ok apps if you want a text to speech app to read your ebooks. Crashed all the times when load pdf files. Recently got ads, but i bought this one years ago? Why is it? No idea. The save function doesn’t work. Lagging when trying to scroll down to where i left previously but crashed again. Potentially 5 stars apps if it can load more file types easily without crashed and the save function works Still, thanks for the app

by Na*****, 2025-05-14

I don’t recall the voice is sounding so robotic in the past. I’m hoping that there could be some serious improvement to this specialist since I paid for. I don’t recall having this issue with this application before.